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Air Force Openly Seeking Cyberweapons
Gunkerty Jeb writes "The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center posted a broad agency announcement (PDF) recently, calling on contractors to submit concept papers detailing technological demonstrations of 'cyberspace warfare operations' capabilities. Among many other things, the Air Force is seeking to obtain the abilities to 'destroy, deny, degrade, disrupt, deceive, corrupt, or usurp the adversaries' ability to use the cyberspace domain for his advantage' and capabilities that would allow them to intercept, identify, and locate sources of vulnerability for threat recognition, targeting, and planning, both immediately and for future operations."
That “adversaries” includes us. Especially us.
Good luck knowing what is real in 10 years. Most people already have barely and self-made observations/experiences.
Give everyone else Windows install disks and free licenses. And run our systems on linux.
Might be against the Geneva conventions for torture
Unlike nukes, we all have access to 'cyberweapons'.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
They'll need to get to work creating something to monitor and regulate all these cyberweapons they're creating. A defense net for the Air Force, a "Net-in-the-Sky", if you will. That should work, right?
Everything is better with chainsaws.
bet the password for the entire system will be cyberweapons12
If you live on Alderaan don't fund the kickstarter... Unless you're one of those "Alderaan shot first" cranks.
But they where supporting the TERRORIST! They got what was comin...
The Internet Kill Switch died in committee. Even if it had passed, that's not really what they're talking about here. It would (potentially) have shut America off from the Internet, but that's only degrading the enemy's capability in the sense that shooting yourself denies them the chance to kill you.
The fact that this is being done in the Air Force is a little surprising, but there's a remarkable amount of redundancy between our branches. All of the branches do computer work of various kinds. That redundancy is expensive, no doubt, but it also creates diversity which makes it more robust.
Whether we actually need that robustness or if it's just more make-work for Congressional districts... I won't touch that. Let's just say that it's complicated.
Right? I figure I can get at least $20 billion up front, another $200 billion in overruns, and about 15 years to develop a VB6 goatse "weapon" that never really works right.
I love this idea.